Sectional bookcase.



No. 837,293. PATBNTED nEc.419o6. L. FAUST & w. A. BROLIN.- sEoTIoNAL BooKcAsB.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 20,1906.

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No. 837,293. PATENTED DEC. 4, 1906. L. PAUST & W. A. BROLIN. SECTIONAL BOOKGASE.

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LEVIN FAUST AND VILLARD A. BROLIN, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

SECTIONAL BOOKCASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4,' 1906.

Application filed April 20, 1906. Serial No. 312,776.

To all LU/tom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEVIN FAUs'r and WILLARD A. BROLIN, citizens of the United States of America, .residing at Rockford, in the county of W'innebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sectional Bookcases, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates specicallyto mechanism for equalizing the travel of the opposite ends of bookcase doors or closures and bureau and other sliding drawers and similar slidable parts of furniture; and it consists, essentially, of a case or similar structure having two single guideways therein `extending transversel thereof and substantially parallel to eac other from the front to the rear portion of the same,one of said guideways curving thence inward and extending along lengthwise of the case-section and thence backward into coniiuence with the remaining guideway, the confluent guideways curving thence backward and inward and extending along lengthwise of the case-section, a closure yfor the opening in the structure, and metallic tapes connecting with the end portions of such closure and Vextending therefrom lengthwise through the two single guideways and into the confluent guideways, said tapes being united at their rear end portions.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure l is a top plan view of a bookcase provided with our improvement having parts thereof horizontally sectioned away to show the interior construction, arrangement, and operation of the movable parts of the same. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same with parts thereof in different positions from those shown in Fig. I, which last-mentioned iigure shows the closure of the bookcase wide open and slid inward to its backward limit of travel, while Fig. 2 shows the closure slid outward to its forward limit. of travel ready to be swung verticallydownward to a closed osition. Fig. 3 is a transverse section at t e dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 1 of the bookcase closed. Fig. 4 is a section at the dotted line 4 4 in Fig. l of the upper portion of a complete case minus its closure. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail through the dotted line 5 5 in Fig. 3 of the left-hand half of the case. Fig. 6 is a section at the dotted line 6 in Fig. 2 of parts there shown.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A is a rectangular section of a sectional bookcase of the usual or any desired construction havingtwo single guideways A A2 therein extending transverselythereof and substantially parallel to each other from the front to the rear portion of the same, the guideways A curving thence inward and extending along lengthwise of the case-section and thence backward to a3, Fig. 5, into confluence with' the guideway A2, the confluent guideways A3 curving thence backward and inward and extending along lengthwise of the case-section.

Bis a partition arranged below and parallel to the top of the case-section A a suflicient distance therefrom to form a recess therein for the admission of the closure thereof when it is swung to a horizontal position, as indicated in Fig. 3, preparatory to being slid into the case-section.

C is a closure for the opening in the front of the case-section A and is horizontally slidable in the recess C, Fig. 3,- in the top of the same.

D Dl are metallic tapes (formed, preferably, of thin strips of flexible steel) pivotally connected, by means of pintles D2 D3, with the end portions of the closure C and extending therefrom lengthwise through the single guideways A A2 and thence into the confinent guideways A3, where they are joined together by their inner ends at a., Fig. 5, such pintles D2 D3 projecting into the grooves D4 D5 in the case-section A and serving as slidable bearings for the closure C.

If the closure C be swung from its vertical position, Fig. 3, to a horizontal position (indicated by the dotted lines a) and be slid thence backward to its inner limit of travel, as in Fig. 1, the tapes D D will have traveled inward with the closure a corresponding distance, their united ends a meanwhile hav- Aing slid toward the right -hand-from the position they occupy in Fig. 2 to the position they are shown as occupying in Fig. 1 also a corresponding distance in the open end of the confluent guideways A3, Fig. 2. The tapes D D being formed of inelastic and longitudinally-unyielding material will obviously serve to positively and accurately equalize the slidable travel of a bookcase closure, a bureau or other drawer, or any similar sliding part in furniture or elsewhere.

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Having fully described our invention, wh at we claim as new, and vdesire to secure by Letters Patent, is l 1. In combination, a case-section or analogous structure havin two guideways therein extending transverse y thereof and substantially parallel to each other, from the front to the rear portion of the same, one of said guideways curving thence inward and extending along lengthwise of the section, and

thence backward into confluence with the remaining guideway, the confluent guideways stantially as described and for the purpose speciiied.

2,. In combination, a case-section or analogous structure having two guideways A yA2 therein extending transversely thereof and substantially parallel to each other, from the4 Jfront to the rear portion of the same, one of said guideways A curving thence inward and extending along lengthwise oi the section and thence backward into conliuence with the remaining guideway A2, the conuent guideways A3 curving thencey backward and inward and extending, along lengthwise of the section, a closure C for the opening in the structure and metallic tapes D Dconnecting with the end portions of said closure and extending therefrom lengthwise through the guideways A A2 and into the confluent guideways A3, said tapes being united at their rear end portions, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we have signed our' names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LEVIN FAUST. WILLARD A. BROLIN.

Witnesses:

L. A. MowRrN, NELLIE E. ENNETT. 

